Trauma Healing
Nervous system regulation and trauma healing for chronic stress, anxiety, and physical pain.
“Trauma is a fact of life. It does not, however, have to be a life sentence.”
Somatic Experiencing®
Somatic Experiencing® is a body-centered therapeutic healing modality created by Dr. Peter Levine. This internationally recognized “bottom-up” approach focuses on helping release stored tension, stress, energy, and trauma held in the body. Somatic Experiencing® restores your connection with your body in the present moment, and with your innate capacity for resilience.
When the nervous system becomes dysregulated, you may feel anxious, shut down, or caught between the two. Somatic Experiencing® helps restore regulation by guiding you to notice and safely resolve the physiological patterns that keep the body in survival mode. It also helps you establish a sense of inner safety and supports your ability to tend to yourself in nourishing ways.
Somatic Embodywork™
Somatic Embodywork™ is a modality I developed over almost 25 years of practice in the healing arts. This work is intuitive, slow, gentle, and purposeful, with a nervous system focus. The primary goal of Somatic Embodywork™ sessions is to assist my clients in cultivating a sense of safety, calm, ease, groundedness, and resilience in their nervous systems and bodies.
On a physical level, my work is designed to alleviate the symptoms of chronic pain, stress, mobility issues, and muscle, joint, fascia, and visceral injuries. Emotionally, it aims to restore nervous system regulation, resilience, and the ability to cope with life's ups and downs with relative ease.
Somatic Experiencing, SE Touch, and CranioSacral Therapy/bodywork are the primary, foundational practices, with other practices included on an as-needed basis.